A man's harrowing story about his gay therapy ordeal horrified This Morning viewers today.

Garrard Conley spoke frankly about his heartbreaking ordeal - including that his own rapist had been the one to out him to his parents.

Chatting to Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield on the ITV daytime show, Garrard spoke about growing up in Arkansas in an incredibly religious family.

"My mum started to suspect that I was gay at that time," he said. "Then my dad became a preacher and that's when it became more fundamentalist."

Garrard Conley spoke about his horrifying experience on This Morning (Image: ITV)

He revealed that his rapist outed him to his parents (Image: ITV)

After the presenters probed him about a friend being the one to out him to his parents, Garrard revealed the shocking truth: "He'd actually raped a child and he actually raped me and then he used [me being gay] as an excuse."

Holly gasped and Garrard added: "My parents didn't know that I'd been raped, so they didn't know the whole story."

Garrard then spoke about what went on behind the scenes at the gay conversion camp.

Garrard spoke about what went on behind the scenes at the 'therapy' (Image: ITV)

"It was 6 months of sitting across from someone and they said 'tell me every fantasy'," he said.

He then revealed that there was an incredibly extensive application process to go to the therapy: "They wanted to make sure that people didn't write an expose... but I did anyway."

Garrard has sat next to paedophiles, rapists and even one woman who was into beastiality.

Afterwards, he said that he had been suicidal.

Years on, however, Garrard has become an activist and speaker against conversion therapy with his memoir, Boy Erased, is set to become a major motion picture. His mum appears to now be supporting him as she features as an extra in the film.